@ Hoover Elementary

Agenda:
-Podcasts
-PTA donation $$
-Reading Month
-Preview Books and Sales People
-Children's Book Week in November
-Book Review Blogs

Summary of the Meeting

CoLibri
  • Jeff Gamble from CoLibri conducted a brief training on how to use the CoLibri book covering machine

Podcasts
  • Nonfiction and biography podcasts will be done with 4th or 5th graders this year
  • Lincoln and Foster have already begun their podcasts
  • A file with templates is available on the librarians’ wikipage

PTA Donation
  • PTA has donated $400.00 to each library
  • Discussed how to order through Follett and have PTA send Follett a check directly

Reading Month
  • Reading Month is PTA driven
  • Other reading/library events are conducted through the year such as: DEAR, The Academy Awards of Books, and Book Month

Preview Books and Sales People
  • Is there a district policy about meeting sales people?
  • Book sale reps. call very often and are difficult to get off the phone
  • Some companies make it easy to preview books because they send a return label so that the book can be returned

Children’s Book Week
  • November 12th-16th
  • Ideas for the week included a paperback exchange and trivia

Book Review Blogs
  • Idea to do book reviews with 4th and 5th grades
  • Students will need to know their Dashboard usernames and passwords
  • A blog can be requested by going to “Request a Blog” on MTLSD Home


Author Visit
  • Kalli Dakos was discussed


Other
  • Bid List- must be returned to Nancy Campbell by October 25th